AUDIENCE:This advanced course is aimed at chaplains, ministers, clergy, spiritual care counselors, nurses, and social workers as well as other health care professionals delivering spiritual care in the community and in healthcare facilities.

Certificate of attendance will be awarded

Cost: Postmarked by 1/17/2014.......... $75.00 Postmarked after 1/17/2014 ..... $90.00

Spirituality and religiosity are recognized as factors that contribute to quality of life and healthy coping strategies in many persons facing life-threatening illnesses such as cancer.

These life threatening events can also give rise to spiritual distress. When combined with chronic or acute pain and other physical and psychological symptoms, spiritual pain can be a component of a patient’s total suffering which the palliative care team (The Collective Soul) seeks to alleviate.

The purpose of this advanced course is to provide a better understanding of the Palliative Care team’s role in relieving biopsychosocial and spiritual suffering.

DEPARTMENT OF PALLIATIVE CARE AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE

The Collective Soul SymposiumHealing Through the Collective Soul:

Relieving physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering of persons with advanced illness and their caregivers

January 31, 2014 • 7:30 am–6:00 pm

ThirdAnnual

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christina Puchalski, MD George Washington University

LOCATION:MD Anderson • Onstead Auditorium

Mitchell Building6767 Bertner, Houston, TX

www.mdanderson.org/conferences

•RegistrationandBreakfast

•Welcome,Invocation/Blessings

•ProvidingHealingandRelievingSufferingthroughTheCollectiveSoul:TheInterdisciplinaryTeamApproachofPalliativeCare

•TheImpactofMultipleDistressingPhysicalSymptomsintheQualityofLifeinPatientswithAdvancedIllnesses

•IntroductionoftheSteveThorneyAwardLecturetoChristinaPuchalski,MD

The2014SteveThorneyAwardLectureinSpiritualCare CreatingHealingEnvironmentsinHealthcare:TheSpiritualityInitiative

•MyRoleinSustainingHopeandPeaceintheLivesofPatientswithAdvancedIllness

•TheWordsThatImpartHealinginDifficultMomentsofLife

•LunchandMusicPerformance

•SpiritualTransformationandtheSacredExperienceofCaringforPatientswithAdvancedIllnessandTheirCaregivers

•UnspokenStories:ImagesThatRestoretheSoul

•HealingBrokenHearts:TheCareofKidswithParentsWhoHaveAdvancedandTerminalIllness

•CulturalandSpiritualPerspectivesofDeath

•DeliveringSpiritualCaretoPatientswithAdvancedandTerminalDementiaandTheirCaregivers

•StepbyStep:PromotingControlintheLivesofPatientswithAdvancedIllness

•Self-careandCopingStrategiesofHealthcareTeamsWhenTreatingPatientswithAdvancedDiseasesandTheirFamilies

•ReflectionoftheDay

•AdjournandEvaluation

Martha Aschenbrenner, MAPalliativeCarePsychologicalCounselorPalliativeCareandRehabilitationMedicine

Eduardo Bruera, MD (co-chair)ProfessorandChairPalliativeCareandRehabilitationMedicine

Alejandro Chaoul, PhDAssistantProfessor,GeneralOncology

Marvin Omar Delgado Guay, MD (chair)AssistantProfessorPalliativeCareandRehabilitationMedicine

Amy Haworth RN, LMSWClinicalNurse-SupportiveCareCenterPalliativeCareandRehabilitationMedicine

Mack Ivy, MS, OTCOccupationalTherapyOccupationalTherapyandRehabilitation

Tony Leachman, MA, BCCChaplainIIChaplaincyandPastoralEducation

Lynn Randolph, ArtistArtist-inResidencePalliativeCareandRehabilitationMedicine

Suresh Reddy, MDProfessorPalliativeCareandRehabilitationMedicine

January 31, 2014

MD Anderson Speakers:

Guest Speakers: Rev. Dr. Carla Cheatham, PhDChaplain,HearttoHeartHospice

Kenneth I. Pargament, PhDDistinguishedScholarInstituteforSpiritualityandHealthattheTexasMedicalCenterDepartmentofPsychologyBowlingGreenStateUniversity

Christina Puchalski, MD - KeynoteDirector,GeorgeWashingtonInstituteforSpiritualityandHealthProfessor,DepartmentofMedicineandHealthSciencesGeorgeWashingtonUniversitySchoolofMedicine

Steve Thorney, BCC (co-chair)Retired

Cletus Udoh, MDivChaplainSpiritualCareLyndonB.JohnsonGeneralHospital

Toregister:www.mdanderson.org/conferences

FormoreinformationcontactMaureenValenza:713-794-1887

DepartmentofPalliativeCareandRehabilitationMedicine

All statements and opinions presented are solely those of the individual speakers and may not reflect those of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.